How to format your references using the Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals (CBR). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Fabian AC. Astronomy. Variable high-energy gamma rays from the elliptical galaxy M87. Science 2006;314(5804):1398–1399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruocco G, Fratalocchi A. Period doubling induced by thermal noise amplification in genetic circuits. Sci Rep 2014;4:7088.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plotkin JB, Dushoff J, Fraser HB. Detecting selection using a single genome sequence of M. tuberculosis and P. falciparum. Nature 2004;428(6986):942–945.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Izaddoost S, Nam S-C, Bhat MA, et al. Drosophila Crumbs is a positional cue in photoreceptor adherens junctions and rhabdomeres. Nature 2002;416(6877):178–183.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

New TR. Hymenoptera and Conservation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2012.

An edited book

Shingareva I. Maple and Mathematica: A Problem Solving Approach for Mathematics. (Lizàrraga-Celaya C. ed). Springer: Vienna; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Panda S. Factors Affecting Capital Structure of Indian Venture Capital-Backed Growth Firms. In: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Perspectives from Emerging Economies. (Manimala MJ, Wasdani KP. eds) Springer India: New Delhi; 2015; pp. 133–156.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals.

Blog post

Andrew E. Jurassic World Reviewed By A Dinosaur Expert: It Isn’t Faithful To Science, But So What? IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jurassic-world-reviewed-dinosaur-expert-it-isn-t-faithful-science-so-what/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Automated Systems: Legislative Branch Opportunity for Sharing Payroll/Personnel Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Delaney RM. A Qualitative Descriptive Case Study Explaining Professional Development in Community Corrections. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ; 2014.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Oestreich JR. Highways and Byways of an Austrian Maestro. New York Times 2017;AR11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals
ISSN (print)	1084-9785
ISSN (online)	1557-8852
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